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90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HSB 613: HSB 613

Died when the session ended · The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill requires texting software providers to ensure certain encryption and notification features when persons send or receive text messages. telephone numbers capable of sending or receiving a text message. The bill requires a texting software provider to ensure that text message data is encrypted and sent over a network that supports the encryption, that media sent in the text message is sent and received in its original quality without degradation, and that a text message sender or receiver receives real-time notifications that a person is typing a message or whether a sent message has been read, if the user has enabled such functions on the wireless device.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named January 24, 2024

  • Rep. Chad Ingels (R) · chad.ingels@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Barb Kniff McCulla (R) · barb.kniffmcculla@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Elizabeth Wilson (D) · elizabeth.wilson@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 1 for, 5 against

For: Google LLC and its Affiliates

Against: AT & T; Apple Inc.; CTIA - The Wireless Association; U.S. Cellular; Verizon Corporation and Affiliated Companies

In plain words

  1. January 24, 2024Filed in the House and sent to the Economic Growth and Technology committee
  2. January 24, 2024House subcommittee named: Ingels, Kniff McCulla and Wilson
  3. January 30, 2024Subcommittee recommended against it

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HSB613